Artist Doan Quoc 'searches for memories' through new exhibition

The watercolor painting exhibition Looking for memories inspired by the national source by artist Doan Quoc will be open until August 18 at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi ).

Opening scene of the exhibition "Looking for Memories" on the evening of August 10 in Hanoi

Artist Doan Quoc

Painter Doan Quoc was born in 1996, from Quang Ngai , graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts, and has organized many domestic and international watercolor exhibitions with his colleagues. Doan Quoc also won third prize - Ho Chi Minh City Creative Award 3rd time in 2023 with the work Where Cities Converge (5-year painting project); second prize - Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Award 2022 and the excellent award in the Goddess of Beauty International Watercolor Flowers Exhibition 2022 competition.

At the exhibition Looking for Memories , the audience seems to be taking a "train" back in time to the past, where the artist, like a son far from home, invites "tourists" to return to the old memories of a mossy Hanoi, an ancient Hue citadel, and the lingering nostalgia of yesterday...

Audience enjoys paintings by artist Doan Quoc

The idea of ​​the works in Soi tim nhung hoi uoc is carried over from Doan Quoc's first solo exhibition called Nhu mot noi niem in Ho Chi Minh City in 2022. This time, Doan Quoc said he expanded the context so that viewers could better visualize the content of the cultural story he wanted to convey. The techniques and materials of modern painting are also new things that artist Doan Quoc wants to bring to the public. The works on display still use watercolors to express, but there have been many changes in techniques as well as approaches, helping the works to be more complete, bringing the most complete emotional experiences to viewers.

Quite a lot of young audience came to the exhibition

Street Corner

The work of the burden

Capital Night

Transitional work

Song of Glory

Artist Doan Quoc shared: “To create these works, I spent a lot of time and effort researching cultural documents through written records, images and paintings from our ancestors. And more importantly, it is a personal experience through direct painting trips to record what remains in the present. Hopefully, these emotional perspectives through paintings for Hanoi or Hue and still lifes... will be like a bridge between the past and the present, helping young people have moments of quiet reflection, feeling more deeply about history and time...".

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